No. 150: ROY MacGREGOR / "as Canadian as a guy who slung beer in the Empire Hotel and played against Parry Sound when their team had Bobby Orr."

I've always considered him as a Walking Canadian Heritage Moment. "You mean he wasn't there when they hammered the Last Spike?" Roy looks back on his career in his memoir & we try to on this podcast.

THIS SubStack entry is No. 150 in what has been, oh, 14 months of posting in this space. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscriptions ($5 a month or $50 for the year) give you access to exclusive subscriber-only features and more than 140 essays in the archive. And please check out my memoir for Audible —here’s a link to How to Succeed on Audible.ca for Canadian readers. (You’ll have to use Audible.com elsewhere.)

To mark the anniversary, I’m going to open access to the archives for a couple of days for folks to sniff around—under the usual circumstances (italic here as we’ll return to that word shortly), the archives are only accessible for stories dating back a couple of months. That would close …